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« on: February 08, 2007, 18:30:49 »
When it snows...........
Why is it that only schools close :?:  :?:  :?:  everything else stays open.
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2007, 18:35:31 »
Because with 30-35 kids in a class if the teacher isnt there then all hell breaks lose!

Generally us adults dont need supervising and can look after ourselves!
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2007, 18:36:44 »
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Generally us adults dont need supervising and can look after ourselves!


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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2007, 18:43:27 »
Indeed and unlike the god old days teacher tends to live elsewhere other than the estate the kids live on, and who can blame them!

As a parent I'd rather have the kids at home than one adult trying to look after say 90 kids.  Besides going to school is hardly an essential journey, it also puts more strain on the rush hour traffic and also parents who may not be able to get back to actually collect kids. It's a tough call eitherway.

I'm 34 and can say that it's nowt new, infact as a Kid we really looked forwards to it, but we did live well and truely in the sticks then so probably aborted any illconsidered attempts at the school trip way before the teachers did. If it snowed real bad while at school if we didn't leave early we quite simply wouldn't get home unless we walked around 3 miles of unclassified roads 4x4 or not.
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2007, 18:44:33 »
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Because with 30-35 kids in a class if the teacher isnt there then all hell breaks lose!

Generally us adults dont need supervising and can look after ourselves!


Good answer Smo.  But....
What about private schools and boarding schools (ive never heard of them closing.... although i may be mistaken).
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« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2007, 18:48:28 »
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Because with 30-35 kids in a class if the teacher isnt there then all hell breaks lose!

Generally us adults dont need supervising and can look after ourselves!


Good answer Smo.  But....
What about private schools and boarding schools (ive never heard of them closing.... although i may be mistaken).


They dont close, but because the kids live on site they have enough staff for a bare min coverage for H&S requirements etc at all times, if normal lessons happen or not is a different matter!
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« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2007, 18:50:42 »
boaring cos... they don need to go anywhere to get to school... :)

private schools isnt answerable to the council, and i would imagine its the council who announces the closures to the press

private would ring each parent :)
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2007, 18:59:55 »
Boardng schools HAVE to have a minimum no. of staff who live-in.
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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2007, 19:15:31 »
I worked in the private education sector for 20 years.
They do not close and depend on lot`s of day school pupils, full quota boarding schools are a thing of the past, it is just uneconomical.

Private schools will remain open because the parents are paying for it.....Simple as that.
Parent pressure in the private environment takes on a new meaning......And closing the school is just not an option.
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« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2007, 19:31:22 »
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private schools isnt answerable to the council, and i would imagine its the council who announces the closures to the press


Its normaly the headmaster who decides but on rare occasions the LEA can close all the schools in the LEA (happened today with Dudley and Birmingham closing everything).

BTW Todays problem was not the kids getting to school it was the risk of them not getting home again!!!!!!
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2007, 20:03:17 »
Being a teacher myself, sometimes 13 weeks holiday and Bank holidays just isn't enough!!!!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2007, 20:33:19 »
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Being a teacher myself, sometimes 13 weeks holiday and Bank holidays just isn't enough!!!!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:


not a teacher myself but a teaching assistant and i agree!

only our school open round here all the others were shut! :cry:  :cry:

just got back though had to walk the dogs and the KIDS!

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« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2007, 21:02:26 »
School is closed tomorrow too  :D

Half term starts early for me  8)
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« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2007, 00:04:10 »
Schools round here generally shut becuase the Buses cannot get though

many teachers live in the country many ucr's are impassable

A school has to have minium no of staff to operate properly
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« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2007, 00:24:27 »
my school (private school) never used to close...having said that i dont think the weather has ever been bad enough in my lifetime (18yrs) to actually prevent anyone getting there....
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« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2007, 09:35:41 »
Our college stays open-because it is a military college and the students and some military staff live on base. All us civvy lecturers amanged to get in!

Schools being shut helped reduce the traffic and probably potential for accidents.

A colleague's wife is a headteacher, she had to close her primary school because alot of the staff live a fair way away, and because of health and safety/ class cover etc.
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« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2007, 09:43:29 »
I used to go to private school and with it being in the middle of no where and on a hill it would close when it snowed (on that very rare occasion). which ment some times the local state schools would be open while we were closed.
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« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2007, 15:53:04 »
Our school was open on Thursday, but only half the kids turned up, because even though the roads were open and practically all of the 140 or so staff made it in, some from a good distance away, the bus companies claimed they couldn't run the buses.

Having seen buses driving up snow-covered mountains around the world, I'm not entirely clear why 2 inches of snow in Bracknell should be a problem.
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« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2007, 16:25:59 »
Quote from: "smo"
Because with 30-35 kids in a class if the teacher isnt there then all hell breaks lose!

Generally us adults dont need supervising and can look after ourselves!


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« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2007, 16:46:08 »
My guess is they're scared of getting sued if a kids slips over & grazes a knee or something
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« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2007, 17:17:10 »
Snowballs hitting kids in faces and school being sued because of it is an answer I got yesterday.
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